A WEEKEND IN THE TASMANIAN OUTDOORS
A weekend in Hobart is best spent outside the city limits. Sure, MONA is fantastic and Salamanca Place well worth the trip. But if you have just two days to spend in this gem of Australia’s south, rent a...
ADVANCED STYLE AT MIFF
The 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off on Thursday 31 July, and brings with it a swag of brilliant and beautiful features, documentaries and shorts from Australia and around the world. Among...
GET IN THE SWING OF THINGS
If the terms Lindy Hop, Charleston and East Coast Swing mean anything to you, then there’s a good chance you’ve already been introduced to the wonderful world of swing dancing. However, should the very...
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL BAR AT CINEMA NOVA
To celebrate the Australian release of Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nova Cinemas in Carlton has set up their very own Grand Budapest Hotel Lobby Bar. The bar, which will be in...
THE HYPNOTIC RULE OF THUMB
You know something different is about to happen the moment you walk into the Malthouse Tower Theatre. Phillip Adams, the artistic director and performer of THUMB: A Performance In Progress, sits just to...
YOUR SKY HIGH WORKOUT
I think we’ve all harboured dreams of running away and joining the circus at one stage in our lives. I don’t know exactly who it is to blame: the ridiculously cute and well trained animals, the absurd...
SCREEN MY SHORTS COMPETITION – PROJECT HOMELESS
Project Homeless is a joint Screen My Shorts Australia and Parramatta City Council initiative designed to raise awareness of one of the most crippling issues plaguing society: homelessness. Homelessness is...
BEG, SCREAM AND SHOUT AT THE ABBOTSFORD CONVENT
The city of Melbourne is nothing if not eclectic. It likes to think it provides a little something for everybody, and more often then not succeeds in catering for a wide range of diverse preferences. Take...
DROP BY DRAWING WITH MELBOURNE NOW
The National Gallery of Victoria’s ridiculously popular Drop by Drawing sessions will hold their finale (for now) this Sunday, 26 January. After attracting enormous crowds throughout the latter months of...
MELBOURNE CENTRAL ROOFTOP TENNIS CLUB
Melbournians have long made public their love affair with rooftops and things that are a wee bit different. With this in mind, Nike and Melbourne Central have joined forces this Australian Open summer...
YO-CHI CARLTON
Frozen yoghurt is steadily taking over Melbourne, with yoghurt bars popping up in practically every suburb to satisfy the health conscious with a sweet tooth. However, the undisputed fro-yo king of our...
THE RAILWAY MAN
When films are touted as being ‘based on a true story’, there is naturally a touch of skepticism that follows. Too often, these films turn out to be simply a dramatized reworking of some minor...